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water
1. n. A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gas
By the action of electricity, the water was resolved into its two parts, oxygen and hydrogen.
2. n. (in particular) The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
May I have a glass of water?
Your plants need more water.
3. n. A serving of liquid water.
4. n. (alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
He showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God.
5. n. (or in the plural) Water in a body; an area of open water.
The boat was found within the territorial waters.
These seals are a common sight in the coastal waters of Chile.
6. n. (poetic, archaic, or dialectal) A body of water, almost always a river.
7. n. A combination of water and other substance(s).
8. n. (sometimes ) Mineral water.
Perrier is the most popular water in this restaurant.
9. n. (often, in the plural) Spa water.
Many people visit Bath to take the waters.
10. n. (pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
ammonia water
11. n. Urine.
12. n. Amniotic fluid; used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America, especially to avoid cacophony, as in this example: (
Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s water breaks. (North America)
Before your child is born, your water(s) will break. (North America)
Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s waters break. (UK)
13. n. (colloquial, medicine) Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
He suffers from water on the knee.
14. n. (figuratively, in the or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
The rough waters of change will bring about the calm after the storm.
15. n. (colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
I know he'll succeed. I feel it in my waters.
16. n. (dated, finance) Excess valuation of securities.
17. n. The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
a diamond of the first water is perfectly pure and transparent
18. n. A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
19. v. To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
20. v. To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
21. v. To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
I need to go water the cattle.
22. v. (intransitive) To get or take in water.
The ship put into port to water.
23. v. (transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
Nature called, so I stepped into the woods and watered a tree.
24. v. To dilute.
Can you water the whisky, please?
25. v. (transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
26. v. (intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.
Chopping onions makes my eyes water.
The smell of fried onions makes my mouth water.
27. v. To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
to water silk
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
other
1. adj. See other (determiner) below
2. adj. second.
I get paid every other week.
3. adj. Alien.
4. adj. Different.
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another.
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
7. n. The other one; the second of two.
One boat is not better than the other.
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
Other people would do it differently.
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
Other than that, I'm fine.
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise.
It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
If you think other. — Shakespeare.
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
liquid
1. n. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative
A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
2. n. (phonetics) A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
3. adj. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
liquid nitrogen
4. adj. (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
5. adj. (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
6. adj. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
a liquid melody
7. adj. (phonology) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
L and R are liquid letters.
8. adj. Fluid and transparent.
the liquid air
carelessly
1. adv. Giving the appearance of carelessness; relaxedly.
The papers were carelessly strewn on the table.
2. adv. Done without care or attention; inattentively.
Distracted by the salesperson, he carelessly read the contract.
spilled
1. v. (chiefly US) simple past tense and past participle of spill
spill
1. v. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
2. v. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
3. v. To drop something that was intended to be caught.
4. v. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
5. v. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
6. v. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
7. v. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
8. v. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
9. v. (transitive, Australia, politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
10. v. To reveal information to an uninformed party.
He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist.
11. n. A mess of something that has been dropped.
12. n. A fall or stumble.
The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
13. n. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
14. n. A slender piece of anything.
15. n. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
16. n. A metallic rod or pin.
17. n. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
18. n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
19. n. (obsolete) A small sum of money.
20. n. (Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
thrown
1. v. past participle of throw
throw
1. v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
A thrown nail.
2. v. To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
3. v. To eject or cause to fall off.
4. v. To move to another position or condition; to displace.
throw the switch
5. v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
6. v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
7. v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception.
8. v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
9. v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
10. v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
11. v. To imprison.
The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
12. v. To organize an event, especially a party.
13. v. To roll (a die or dice).
14. v. To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
15. v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
16. v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
17. v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
18. v. To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
19. v. To project or send forth.
20. v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
21. v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole c
22. v. (baseball, slang) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
23. v. To install a bridge.
24. n. The flight of a thrown object
What a great throw by the quarterback!
25. n. The act of throwing something.
With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow.
26. n. One's ability to throw
He's got a girl's throw.
He's always had a pretty decent throw.
27. n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
28. n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
29. n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw.
30. n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
31. n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
32. v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
33. n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
34. n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
35. n. misspelling of throe
about
1. prep. In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
2. prep. Near; not far from; approximately; regarding time, size, quantity.
3. prep. On the point or verge of.
the show is about to start; I am not about to admit to your crime
4. prep. On one's person; nearby the person.
5. prep. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
6. prep. Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
7. prep. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
He knew more about what was occurring than anyone.
8. prep. (figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in possession of; in control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
He has his wits about him.
9. prep. In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
10. adv. Not distant; approximate.
11. adv. On all sides; around.
12. adv. Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
13. adv. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
about as cold; about as high
14. adv. Near; in the vicinity.
15. adv. In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
16. adv. On the move; active; astir.
17. adv. To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
to face about; to turn oneself about
18. adv. (nautical) To the opposite tack.
19. adv. (obsolete) Preparing; planning.
20. adv. (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
a mile about, and a third of a mile across
21. adv. (chiefly North America, colloquial) Going to; on the verge of; intending to.
22. adj. Moving around; astir.
out and about; up and about
After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.
23. adj. In existence; being in evidence; apparent
As
1. n. plural of A
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
You’re not as tall as I am.
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
The kidnappers released him as agreed.
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
Do as I say!
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
As you wish, my lord!
6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
As I came in, she flew.
7. conj. At the same time that; while.
He sleeps as the rain falls.
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
As it’s too late, I quit.
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
It's not so complicated as I expected.
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
You are not as tall as me.
They're big as houses.
17. prep. In the role of.
What is your opinion as a parent?
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
20. n. plural of a
upon
1. prep. Physically above and in contact with.
Place the book upon the table.
2. prep. Physically directly supported by.
The crew set sail upon the sea.
She balanced upon one foot.
3. prep. Being followed by another so as to form a series.
hours upon hours, years upon years, mile upon mile of desert
4. prep. At (a prescribed point in time).
The contract was rendered void upon his death.
5. prep. On.
6. adv. Being the target of an action.
He was set upon by the agitated dogs
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
table
1. n. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
2. n. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
3. n. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
4. n. (poker, metonym) The lineup of players at a given table.
That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event
5. n. A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
6. n. A service of Holy Communion.
7. n. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
8. n. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
9. n. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
The children were practising multiplication tables.
Don’t you know your tables?
Here is a table of natural logarithms.
10. n. (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
11. n. (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
12. n. (musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
13. n. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
14. n. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
15. v. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
to table fines
16. v. (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
17. v. (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
18. v. (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
19. v. (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.
20. v. (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
21. v. To put on a table.
22. v. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
floor
1. n. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The room has a wooden floor.
2. n. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
3. n. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.
4. n. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
5. n. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
6. n. A storey/story of a building.
For years we lived on the third floor.
7. n. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
8. n. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
9. n. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
10. n. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
11. n. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
12. n. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
The floor of 4.5 is 4.
13. n. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
14. n. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
15. n. (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
16. n. A dance floor.
17. n. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
18. v. To cover or furnish with a floor.
floor a house with pine boards
19. v. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
20. v. (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.
21. v. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
floor an opponent
22. v. To amaze or greatly surprise.
We were floored by his confession.
23. v. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
floor a college examination
24. v. (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
puddle
1. n. A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
2. n. (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
3. n. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
4. v. To form a puddle.
5. v. To play or splash in a puddle.
6. v. To process iron by means of puddling.
7. v. To line a canal with puddle (clay).
8. v. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
9. v. To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
10. v. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
soiled
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of soil
2. adj. dirty
soil
1. n. A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
2. n. The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
3. n. The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature
4. n. Country or territory.
The refugees returned to their native soil.
Kenyan soil
5. n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
6. n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
7. n. Dung; compost; manure.
night soil
8. v. To make dirty.
9. v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
10. v. (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
11. v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
12. v. To make invalid, to ruin.
13. v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
14. n. (euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
15. n. (medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
16. n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
17. v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to
to soil a horse
spot
1. n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur.
2. n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.
3. n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
That morning, I saw that a spot had come up on my chin.
I think she's got chicken pox; she's covered in spots.
4. n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
Would you like to come round on Sunday for a spot of lunch?
5. n. (slang) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot and two five spots.
6. n. A location or area.
I like to eat lunch in a pleasant spot outside.
For our anniversary we went back to the same spot where we first met.
7. n. A parking space.
8. n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
The fans were very unhappy with the referee's spot of the ball.
9. n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
10. n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?
11. n. Difficult situation; predicament.
She was in a real spot when she ran into her separated husband while on a date.
12. n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
13. n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
14. n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
- You've misspelled "terrapin" here.
- Whoops. Good spot.
15. n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
16. n. A food fish of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
17. n. The southern redfish, or (vern, red horse) , which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
18. n. (in the brokers' slang) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
19. n. An autosoliton.
20. n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
Twelve spot two five pounds sterling. (ie. £12.25)
21. v. To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
Try to spot the differences between these two pictures.
22. v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
I’ll spot you ten dollars for lunch.
23. v. To stain; to leave a spot (on).
Hard water will spot if it is left on a surface.
a garment spotted with mould
24. v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.
25. v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
I can’t do a back handspring unless somebody spots me.
26. v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.
27. v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
28. v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
29. v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
The referee had to spot the pink on the blue spot.
30. adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.
spot wheat; spot cash

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